FOUR NEW GRIME KIDS
PHOTOS BY ALEX STURROCK
INTERVIEWS BY PRANCEHALL
Grime is going through a bit of a make-or-break period right now. Most of the better MCs have long given up trying to be grimey and are now doing pop songs with 80s revivalists and covering the Ting Tings (Dizzee) or taking their shirts off in videos and wearing chains and diamonds so fake they look like the ones that kids wear for a joke at fancy dress parties (Tinchy). Let’s not even mention aspiring kids’ TV presenter Skepta and his new best mate Timmy Mallett.
So thank God for a new breed of young grime artists coming along like sportswear-adorned John Connors to save the post-apocalyptic grime scene from dodgy electro beats, embarrassing dance routines and Jo Whiley’s Radio 1 show.
GRIMINAL
Age: 17
From: Greengate, east London
GCSEs: “Passed all of them” |
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What made you want to become a grime MC?
People like Kano and D Double would come to my house to do sets with my older brother Mak 10 and that. I would just sit outside the room and listen. I felt that it was just in me to be an MC. When I wrote my first lyric it felt so good. I can’t explain it really. I was supposed to grow up and be a DJ ’cos my brothers Marcus and Mak 10 are DJs.
What was your favourite subject in school?
It would have to be maths, you know. I just understood it, really. I had a natural understanding. I didn’t like English, although I’m a MC. I liked school though. |
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See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Oct 28, 2008 wrote:
gotta be honest:
the only grime im still listening to after everything is said and done is CHRONIC: BLAZE MORE DAN U.
fuck me that ’mix-cd’ is a head driller.
everything else = meh | | Anonymous, on Oct 18, 2008 wrote:
i live in bow E3. :D | | Anonymous, on Oct 13, 2008 wrote:
p money is not 23 still, hes 19
of dem guys are 18 or under
which is why dot and p money aint ther, u would never consider them as ’youngers’ | | Anonymous, on Oct 13, 2008 wrote:
grime is mad gay yo | |
| ChocolateDlux, on Sep 30, 2008 wrote:
hell yes!!
im diggin the grime right now
fer sure!! | | Anonymous, on Sep 7, 2008 wrote:
grime 4 life | | Anonymous, on Sep 6, 2008 wrote:
LOL Ice Kid looks like he’s about 9 years old | | Anonymous, on Sep 6, 2008 wrote:
isn’t p money 23? not sure how well he’d fit into an article about teenage grime acts.
show me the article in the cut. if they’ve published that maniac interview word for word they’ve stolen it from me.
| | Anonymous, on Sep 5, 2008 wrote:
british mc’s smash up usa all day, you lot check giggs and cel22 out and tell me its not good ya! | | Anonymous, on Sep 5, 2008 wrote:
they look 12. | | Anonymous, on Sep 5, 2008 wrote:
This sucks, these kids just look like run of the mill Yo’s from Roxbury and Anywheresblackville, USA. Not saying I can’t appreciate some bassline tracks or Lethal Bizzle here and there but let’s get real. We only like grime and bassline because it is the only cultural export Britain has anymore and we secretly want to laugh at her and how far she’s fallen. Once the leading light of Western civilization and so on and now security cameras everywhere and brooding nignogs who are functionally illiterate. Way cool.... | | Anonymous, on Sep 5, 2008 wrote:
You are a cunt. Where’s P Money and Dot Rotten? That Maniac interview was printed word 4 word in the Cut, you cunts! | |
| A Taipan, on Sep 3, 2008 wrote:
LOL, I was called a cunt! By an anonymous twat. Hurray! | |
| NMA, on Sep 3, 2008 wrote:
i heart grime. | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
"it stops vice from slipping into the sea of hipster bullshit mediocrity that you’d love it to become. go back to trawling hypem for the latest cool kids track." qfe!
large up dj prancehall | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
i enjoyed this, your probably just too ugly to like it or something | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
this isn’t a column. this is some pictures of people and some words. | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
because
a) its an interesting read
b) it stops vice from slipping into the sea of hipster bullshit mediocrity that you’d love it to become. go back to trawling hypem for the latest cool kids track. | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
seriously, why the fuck does this column still exist??? | | Anonymous, on Sep 1, 2008 wrote:
Grime is shit. Seriously it is so endlessly boring. Please stop writing about it vice. | | Anonymous, on Sep 1, 2008 wrote:
you fuckin cunt | | |
| A Taipan, on Sep 1, 2008 wrote:
Ah yes, overseas mediocrity, ain’t it grand? | | |
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